Quotes about Conscience
The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it.
— Mahatma Gandhi
A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.
— Mark Twain
Conscience, man's moral medicine chest.
— Mark Twain
The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.
— Oscar Wilde
Happy is the man who renounces everything which may bring a stain or burden upon his conscience
— Thomas a Kempis
The moral sense, or conscience, is as much part of a man as his leg or arm. It is given to all in a stronger or weaker degree.. It may be strengthened by exercise.
— Thomas Jefferson
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.
— Joseph Addison
I will never tell anyone to pick up a gun. But I will pray for the man who picks up a gun, pray that he will be less cruel than he might otherwise have been.
— Desmond Tutu
Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.
— Edmund Burke
The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. Religion reminds every man that he is his brother's keeper.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
He [man] knows that when he is not what he ought to be; when he does what he ought not to do; or omits what he ought to do, he is chargeable with sin
— Charles Hodge
Man had freedom to choose the good, but this same freedom also allowed him to choose the bad. This is called moral freedom.
— Greg Koukl